Biden-Harris open borders leads to more tuberculosis

 American Briefing:

The migration crisis under the Biden-Harris administration fueled a sharp rise in tuberculosis cases in the United States, a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found.

Rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. have steadily increased since 2021, coinciding with record levels of illegal immigration due to lax border enforcement rules, according to a study published Wednesday by FAIR, a Washington, D.C.,-based organization that advocates for lower levels of immigration. The study found that the TB infection rate rose by 34% between 2020 and 2023, and 76% of TB cases in 2023 occurred in foreign-born patients.

“As migrants move into communities all across the United States, unsuspecting Americans are exposed to a potentially deadly disease,” FAIR president Dan Stein stated. “Of acute concern to many Americans is the risk posed to their children who may find themselves in classrooms with recently arrived migrants who are infected with TB.”

“TB is not only a highly communicable disease, it is also one that poses long-term health consequences to those who contract it,” Stein continued. “The cost of treating each case of TB is not trivial, sometimes exceeding $500,000 if the case is extensively drug-resistant.”

Among the study’s other key findings: states and metropolitan areas with high migrant populations boast higher TB rates than those with smaller migrant populations, some categories of migrants do not even undergo health screenings and some border counties have TB rates that exceed those of high-risk countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Biden-Harris open borders policy has allowed millions of illegal and unvetted migrants into the United States.  One of the many reasons for securing the border is to stop such influxes that are a danger to citizens.  This problem is in addition to thousands of convicted murders who came into the US under the Biden-Harris open borders policy.

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